April 12, 2025 • 44 mins
*Bill Maher goes to the White House with Kid Rock
*When did America lose common courtesy and why we need to get it back ASAP
*Difference between TikTok delivered to Chinese children versus TikTok delivered to American children
*How the world would have been significantly different without The United States....and not in a good way!
*Obama was a globalist
*No need to panic....the stock market has and always will go up and down
*Government jobs do not grow the economy. Private sector jobs grow the economy.
*Look at all the shuttered factories in The United States
*Read 'The Art of the Deal' by Trump
*How Trump bought Mar Largo for a steal
*Trump is a negotiating genius
*Socialist was tried and doesn't work
*$5 trillion has been committed to establish American manufacturing since Trump's tariffs
*Defending the Red Sea against Iran
*When did America lose common courtesy and why we need to get it back ASAP
*Difference between TikTok delivered to Chinese children versus TikTok delivered to American children
*How the world would have been significantly different without The United States....and not in a good way!
*Obama was a globalist
*No need to panic....the stock market has and always will go up and down
*Government jobs do not grow the economy. Private sector jobs grow the economy.
*Look at all the shuttered factories in The United States
*Read 'The Art of the Deal' by Trump
*How Trump bought Mar Largo for a steal
*Trump is a negotiating genius
*Socialist was tried and doesn't work
*$5 trillion has been committed to establish American manufacturing since Trump's tariffs
*Defending the Red Sea against Iran
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
With over thirty years in the auto industry, he is
deciding to pull back the curtain and show you what's
really inside. This is Bowen's Cars, brought to you by
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Speaker 2 (00:30):
Here's your host, bow Triven.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
All right, good morning everybody, Thanks for tuning in on
this beautiful time of the year here in Middle Tennessee.
Before before I get started, I want to remind everybody
that the annual Chevrolet Buick GMC of Murphysboro Easter Egg
Hunt is going to be held on Saturday the nineteenth,
(00:56):
the day before Easter, at the Blackman High School ball field.
And this year we've got I think it's I think
we added it up the other day and we're giving
away seventy five hundred dollars in cash to the kids
in different increments based on if they find the right eggs.
But we've got a lot of eggs, thirty thousand eggs.
(01:18):
But when it starts, it gets started, and it ends
fairly quickly because last year I think we had a
thousand kids or something, so it doesn't take long for
them to scoop up the eggs. With that said, I
hope everybody enjoys it and coming out, and hopefully it's
going to be a nice day. So before I get started,
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I was reading something the other day. I don't know
how many of you know, but Bill Maher, the HBO host,
was apparently invited to the White House by Kid Rock.
Kid Rock was talking to Bill Maher and said, I'm
going to get you a dinner at the White House.
And Bill Maher has he's been one of the biggest
critics of Trump, and but he I at least respect him.
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He's got different points of view. We don't agree on
everything when it comes to politics, obviously, but I respect
the fact that he seems to at least have a
take that can be made some common sense of right.
I don't necessarily agree with it, but I understand it
a little bit. So he's one of the few that's
not absolutely nuts and I respect him for that. But anyways,
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he decides to he to his credit, he accepted the
dinner invitation to go see Trump and have dinner with him,
and apparently he put out snippets of it. He hasn't
done it on his show yet. I don't think. I
don't watch his show, but I did hear some snippets.
So one of the things that I thought was the
funniest that I heard was apparently he walked in for
this dinner and had a list of all of the
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insults Trump had said about him over the years, had
it typed out his whole list. So he hands it
to Trump says what do you think about that? Trump
pretayed over and grabbed it, autographed it and said, yep,
I did that, and handed it back to him. And
I thought, you know, that's nothing wrong with that. You
you own up to it. But I thought it was
funny that he just autocraft and handed it back. But
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the other story that he told was he said that
back in the first Trump administration, there was one of
the al Kaeda operatives that was a moolah that was
one of the heads of al Kaeda, and Trump apparently
they got a picture of his house and h somebody
took a picture of his house, and Trump autographed the
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back of the picture of this al Kaeda at Leeds
house and sent it to him, and uh, he told
Bill Maher said, yeah, he asked why did he send
me a picture of my house? So well, you're gonna
have to figure that out. I uh, we all know
why he's sending the picture of the house. He saying, Hey,
look I know where you live. And just so you
think you can get away from us, you can't. We
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know everything about you. I thought it was uh. I
thought it was funny because it showed a lot of
showed a couple of things, one strength, but also a
sense of humor, and right now, I think people on
the left could use a sense of humor. We have
had that. I read an article the other day there
was a survey done that is disturbing, probably as disturbing
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as any survey I've seen, and there have been a lot.
Fifty five percent of the people who identify as leftists,
people who identify not necessarily as the Democratic Party, but
who identify as leftists, fifty five percent said that it
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was okay to assassinate Trump if it was going to
be for the better good. Forty nine percent said it
was okay to assassinate Elon Musk. There have been well,
let's go back and look at it. Luigi Manjoni, right,
who thinks it's okay to murder an executive of an
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insurance company for whatever reason. You can't justify murder, You
cannot justify assassination. You can't. The fact that this violence
and the violence tendencies are coming out of one side
of this is scary to me because it's becoming more
and more mainstream. They're embedding it into their thought processes,
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and it's going to get dangerous. And for no reason.
I have a lot of disagreements with a lot of
people that when it comes to politics, when it comes
to a lot of different things, how to raise my children,
But not one time have I ever thought it would
be okay to have somebody murdered. And that's what assassination is.
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It's political murder. And I don't understand how you can
get to that point in your brain where and not
just a few people fifty five percent, more than half
think it's okay in some instances for assassination of a
human being, who forget the fact that he's the president
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and you disagree with some of his policies. I'll get
to that in just a second, but he's still a
human being that has sons and daughters and aunts, and
uncles and fathers and mothers and wives and children, and
how I don't understand it. I don't understand this violent
tendency that's coming out of all of these protests, where
it's okay to burn things to the ground, it's okay
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to loot, it's okay to steal from people. It's that
mentality is being driven into people who aren't mentally well
and are going to cause some serious damage. And it's
going to be the fault of the rhetoric of the
politicians who have for years spewed that he's literally Hitler
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and he it's a dilemma, right. It's that old adage
of if you had a chance to Hitler when he
was a baby, would you do it? Right? It's that
philosophical question, And the answered I give is no, I wouldn't.
It's a baby. I don't know that he's going to
turn out like that. But the reality is we have
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got to dial it down because people are going to
get hurt, and the people that are going to get
hurt are not the people who are are the ones
saying it's okay to hurt people. They're not the ones
that are going to survive. If there's if it becomes
if it comes to that, it's just it's sick. It's
wrong on every level, and we got to dial it
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back quickly. It doesn't make any sense to me, but hey,
I'm just one guy that doesn't just doesn't believe in that.
All right, this is Bonos Cars brought to you by
Chevrolet Buick GMC of Murphysboro. Come on back after the break.
I got a lot of stuff to rant about.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
With over thirty years in the auto industry, he has
deciding to pull back the curtain and show you what's
really inside. This is Bowen's Cars, brought to you by
Chevrolet Buick GMC of Murphreysborough. For all of your automotive
needs call six one five six four five one zero
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Speaker 2 (08:34):
Here's your host, Bowtriven.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
All right, welcome back. Everybody appreciate you tuning in. So
I was talking to my wife the other day and
we were just talking about manners, and it dawned on me.
It didn't dawn on me. I've known it for a
long time, but I started rethinking it that so much
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of our society has gotten away from just being kind
and having manners, you know, the ability to say thank you, please,
hold the door for ladies as they walk through, hold
the door for guys when they walk through. It doesn't
matter lady or not. It's still rude to grab the
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door and walk right in front of somebody. It is common.
Decency and kindness have gone out the window. And I
don't know if it's because of social media. I don't
know if it's because of parents. I don't know what
it is, but I know that it's absolutely destroying our society.
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The willingness to say yes sir, no ma'am, please, thank you,
just do things that are generally respectful and polite. To
this day, I still will say yes sir and no
sir to people much younger than me that are my customers.
And it's because I've been taught over the years that
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it's just polite to be that way if I don't
know your name. But also, whatever happened to children referring
to their elders. You know, I have lots of employees.
I'm sixty years old now, I've had lots of employees
over the years, and even my current partner, who was
my employer for years, before he allowed me the privilege
of becoming a partner with him. I still to this
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day call him mister Taylor, and still to this day
say yes, sir and no, sir, and all of those
things to him in every conversation I have with him,
because it's respectful and I'm showing that sign of respect
that he did that for me. And I have lots
of employees that work for me that are nineteen twenty
twenty five years old that don't know me. You know,
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they work for me, but I don't really know all
of them on a personal basis. It's not like I
have some relationship with them and I'll walk through and
I'll say, hey, bo, what's up? And it just dawns on. Men,
it's not calling me by my name. That doesn't bother me.
I don't think I'm better than anybody else. I just
wonder what happened to that common decency and respect of
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respecting your elders, respecting authority, respecting people in society so
that we can all get along. And we have gotten
away from that in a big way. And I think
it is by design. I think you know, if you
listen to if you read any of the studies about
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TikTok TikTok, especially because TikTok has algorithms that are completely
different in the United States versus the algorithms in China.
In China, TikTok feeds to its Chinese citizens or children
videos and tiktoks about education and sciences and math and
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all kinds of things in society that are completely different
than what we get, completely different from some of the
deranged tiktoks. I saw TikTok the other day. I was
watching that. I showed him my wife and it was
this lady who her job is being a TikTok influencer,
and she spent five or six minutes on this TikTok
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and she's probably got she got quite a few followers.
She spent five or six minutes on this TikTok talking
about how her husband didn't do enough that on paper,
he was a perfect husband. He was kind, he was sweet,
he was loving, he was a great father, he was there,
he was present, all of that. But her biggest peeve
was that he didn't unload the dishwasher in the morning,
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and because he was late for work and it made
her late for work. But her job is being a
TikTok influencer. She can start at anytime she wants, there's
no specific time she's got to start. He had a
job he had to get up to, and she complained
about the fact that he had to ask her what
he had to cook for dinner that night. Her he
had to ask her what needed to be packed in
the kids for them to go to lunch that day
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while he was taking them to school. And I thought,
how privileged of a society do we have to live
in for somebody to spend five minutes trashing their husband
in public to a million people for simply not unloading
the dishwasher or not or asking her what to cook
for dinner that night. And it is that type of rhetoric.
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And this lady went as far as saying that she
had thought about getting divorced over it. And it dawned
on me that it's part of that respect thing. It's
part of all we have gotten so far out of
what drove this country to being great, which is a
belief in a higher power, a belief in a higher being,
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a belief that if we all work together we can
accomplish absolutely unfathomable things. And we have done that consistently,
no matter what all these protests are about, and by
the way, I want to talk about that in just
a second. No matter what all these protests are about,
ultimately every one of those protesters knows their life is
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better because they live in the United States of America.
They know that because they are here. All of the things,
the phones that they're carrying in their hands, the pavement
that they're walking on so it's not dirt roads anymore,
the buildings that they live in, the air conditioning that
they go back to, all of those things are because
of capitalism and the United States of America and the
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greatness of the American people. And they can continue to
trash fifty percent of the country, but it's the fifty
percent of the country that's providing most of the stuff
that they use to make their lives better every single day.
It is absolutely amazing. But these protests, I want to
talk about them for a second because they're sickening to me.
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It's also kind of enlightening. It's funny when you watch
people get out in the streets and start asking people
what they're actually protesting. It's almost astounding how many of
them have no clue what they're actually protesting. Donald Trump's
a fascist. Well, what makes him a fascist? Well, cause
you know, he just wants to do whatever he wants
to do. Dude, No, that's not what makes him a fascist.
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He's not a fascist. He is trying. A fascist does
not try to limit the size of government. A fascist
tries to expand the size of government and make it
more onerous for the people. He is doing everything he
can to cut regulations to unleash these tariffs. I'll talk
about them in the next segment. But these tariffs were
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designed to bring jobs back to the United States, to
help the American workers and all of the American middle
class that was so great for so many years after
the Industrial Revolution, the American middle class ruled the world.
But now it's been decimated by one world politicians that
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all want to have some global society and all want
to retain the power in that global society. We have
to we have to get away. I don't know how
we're going to do it, though, I really don't, but
we have to get away from being unkind to each other.
And I think it. I've said it on the show
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many times. The forty five stated goals of communism and
I think that it is while while the forty five
stated goals of Communism started out as a Soviet Union
Russian designed plan, after the decimation of the Soviet Union
and going back to just Russia and Russia's economy is
not very big now, Russia doesn't have the power that
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it had as the Soviet Union, that plan got transferred
to China, and China has the technological wherewithal and all
of the other things that they need, and the willingness
to play the long game. And China basically took over
for what Russia or the Soviet Union was doing in
the seventies and eighties, sixties, seventies and eighties, and they're
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doing it by destroying our children and planting thought processes
through digital media and social media, planting thought processes that
destroy the minds of our young people. And they know
that if they can get a hold of three or
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four generations of children and continue to indoctrinate those children
into those thought processes, that at some point that will
be the way it is. Unfortunately, what they don't have
a read on is the rest of the country, the
rest of that fifty percent of the country that says nope,
we're not going along with that. Nope, we're not buying
into that. Nope, we're not believing that that will stand
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up and fight for the greatness of the United States
of America. I don't care. I want everybody out there
that's protesting the United States of America to tell me
how the world would be better without the US. Tell
me how would the world be better without the United
States of America. We'd all still be living in the
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dark ages if it hadn't been for the United States
of America and the Industrial Revolution and all of the
inventions that came out of that, and all of the
technology and all of the innovation that comes out of
the United States because of capitalism. Where would the world
be today? I assure you, you don't want to live
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in it. If you if you saw it, it's not
a good world without the United States of America. These
people got to they got to get a clue. It's
getting old. I'm getting tired of constantly having to listen
to the rhetoric and the stupidity that's coming out of
some of these people's mouths that have no clue what
they're talking about. All right, that wraps up the second segment.
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There We're going to come back for the third because
I got some have to talk about when it comes
to tariffs. This is Bonos Cars, brought you by Chevrolet
Buick GMC of Murphysboro.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
With over thirty years in the auto industry, he has
deciding to pull back the curtain and show you what's
really inside. This is Boweno's Cars, brought to you by
Chevrolet Buick GMC of Murphreysborough. For all of your automotive
needs call six one five six four five one zero
seven five or online Chevrolet Buick GMC of Murphreysboro dot com.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Here's your host, bow Driven.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
All right, welcome back everybody. So before I get started
talking about my opinion on the tariffs and what's going
on with all of that, I wanted to bring up
one more thing when it came to the protest over
the last week week and weekend. Aside from the fact
that they're committing violence and burning teslas and destroying things
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that for people who are probably on their side of
the aisle that are driving teslas, that makes no sense
to me. But hey, you be an idiot if you've
got to be an idiot. But I also wanted to
point out that when the media attempts to try to
make it sound how great and how big all of
these protests were. So they said that like six hundred
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thousand people signed up for the protests and they but
then I saw some media group that used the figure
that were are five million people around the United States protesting? Yeah,
they're the same people who voted back in November and lost.
Now they're just continuing on with their goofiness. There's a
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lot of words I could use, but I'm not allowed
to because it's the FCC says I can't say those
kind of words on the radio. But the goofiness, it's
just odd to me. So let's talk about these tariffs
because I know it is creating a lot of craziness
and a lot of stupidity when it comes to the
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stock market. First of all, let me explain to everything
to somebody, the stock market will be just fine. Right
after the tariffs were announced, people got stupid and started
doing really stupid things and selling all of their stocks.
But the reality is they shouldn't have done that. There
was no reason to sell them in by the way
it started coming back. The stock market is going to
bounce around. You're going to talk about how Trump is
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destroying the economy wide. What did he destroyed the stock market?
The stock markets had ten percent corrections every year for
the last I don't know, fifteen years or something. They've
had twenty and thirty percent corrections before tariffs were put
on there. So the only let me back up a second,
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talk is cheap. And what everybody every America president prior
to Donald Trump, except for Reagan, did was talk. They
just talked, but they were all in with all the
globalists anyways. Obama was certainly a globalist. He was all in.
He did a tour, an apology tour, walk going around
from country to country when he first became president, telling
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everybody how sorry he was for the United States of America.
Don't apologize for us. You're apologizing to countries we give
money to. You're apologizing to countries we support. You're apologizing
to European countries. Why why are they allowed to lecture
us while we sit there and pay for all of
their defense. If it wasn't for the United States of America,
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Putin would roll right in through Europe and create a
different Soviet Union again, and there'd be nothing they could
do to stop him. They do not have the defenses
to be able to stop him. You know why they
didn't say anything when that Signal Chat scandal came out
and Jade Vance was trashing Europe and saying, I'm tired
of taking care of them and i loathe the fact
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that we have to take care of their lazy butts,
and Pete Heegsas said, yeah, me too. You know why
you didn't hear anything in the media from anybody in
European countries howling about that because they knew it was true.
It's really hard to say, well, we oh, okay, you're right,
never mind, we can't take care of ourselves. We don't
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have the money you are spending. Seventy percent of the
money on NATO comes from the United States of America,
while we sit over here and give money away and
have these socialist countries where we're everybody gets everything for free,
but defense. Defense is at the expense of the American taxpayer.
They're the ones that are gonna have to pay for
our defense so we can continue to do the things
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we do, even though we're gonna buy our oil from
Putin and we're not gonna buy it from the United States,
and we're gonna buy all of this other stuff. It
makes no sense. You guys sit over there and lecture
us while Obama goes around and says we're sorry, all
while we're the one's taking care of everything. We're the
ones that are sart at thirty six or thirty eight
trillion now in debt because of that, and so talk
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is cheap. We were on a trajectory that was unsustainable.
It is impossible to continue to run to trillion dollars
a year deficits and stay solvent. You cannot do it there.
It comes a point in time when you can't borrow
any more money than what We had no choice but
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to create doze and try to find a different way
to fix this problem. And by the way, I want
to remind everybody you can find this video online very easily.
In twenty eleven, President Obama at the time put out
a video talking about wanting to reduce government waste and
how it needed to be done and that we knew
there was this much waste in the government. You know
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why he didn't do it, and I don't think it
was nefarious. Here's my theory on why he didn't do it,
Because they got into the computer systems and went, oh crap,
it's not possible to do this. None of the computers
talk to each other. None of the systems from Social
Security talked to the VA or talk to Medicare, and
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none of the systems talk to each other. We have
no way of understanding how deep all of this rot is.
And AI didn't exist at the time. We didn't have
the technological capabilities. I've talked about this on the show before,
and it was a by design that the government continued
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to have systems that didn't talk to each other. Because
if you don't have systems that can talk to each
other and you don't have a proper way of accounting
for everything, you can hide lots and lots and lots
of stuff. And so the grift or graft, I've heard
it both ways. I'm not sure which one it is,
but I think it's grifting. But the grift could continue
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on and on and on because you just simply couldn't
find the problems. It took twenty twenty five. It took
fourteen years later for the technological capabilities, and some people
who are really smart when it comes to computers, that
were willing to get in there and dig in to
find all of these things that were hidden. When you
have trillions of dollars that are going out the door
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with no markers on them to tell where it went,
that's a problem. But it was a problem that was
by design to continue to allow the people who were
stealing and wasting the money to continue to do that.
So I don't think I think Obama had great intentions.
I think you just it wasn't possible at the time
to solve the problem. It is now, and now they're
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trying to solve the problem because if you run two
trillion dollar deficits and you do that long enough, you'll
be broke. It's just that simple. So and by the way,
I also want to point out that it was bound
for the stock market to have an issue. It would
bound for the Wall Street to have an issue. And
I said this in a different show. When you take
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two trillion dollars worth of government spending off the table
and you start spending what you have not deficit spending,
you're bound to find some pain in there. Those companies,
whether it was I don't know the defense companies, all
of the ones that are part of the defense budget
that got cut or part of the education budget. That
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money went somewhere, it paid for something, It created jobs,
it created other things. Speaking of jobs, the jobs report,
the first job's report for Trump, came out last week
and the media blew it over. They just or blew
over it. They just didn't even think about it, didn't
talk about it. But you know what it showed that
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employment was up. I think it was two hundred and
sixty eight thousand, and it beat the estimates by like
fifty or sixty thousand. But what was more important than
that was there was a decrease in government jobs, which
meant it was private sector jobs that were growing the economy.
Government jobs do not grow the economy. Government jobs are
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a drain on the economy. They're just they're not producing anything.
They're simply taking more of the tax dollars. And so
when we have a jobs report that reports that we
have growth in all of the private sectors and less growth,
no growth, actually declining numbers in the government numbers, it
means we're on the right track. It means we're doing
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something that's necessary to put the economy back on the track.
For health. Why do all of these other countries that
don't they get access to the greatest economic machine that's
ever been created, and that is the American consumer. Our
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market dominates the world's economy dominates it. And why do
they all get access to our economy, which, by the way,
was created simply because of capitalism. One hundred percent of
our economy was created because of capitalism, nothing else. So
why do they get access to the greatest economy on
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earth at very low tariff rates? But our products and
all of our stuff that we're trying to manufacture get
tariffed to the end in their countries. Why is that fair?
And all Trump said was they've been doing it for
fifty years. You can see there is a difference. Drive
through I don't know, I've drive to chat through Chattanooga
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once or twice a month, and there are these big,
huge buildings that you know, used to be factories that
used to that are just sitting there, empty windows, destroyed
that they were I don't know, seventy five eighty one
hundred thousand foot factories that are shuttered and have been
shuttered for twenty thirty forty years. They're all over the
United States, They're all over the Midwest, They're everywhere because
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those manufacturing jobs that created wealth and created retirements and
all of the created families. They got absolutely decimated because
all of the stuff went overseas, because we got hooked
on cheap goods. And all Trump is saying is we
can't keep doing that. It does not work long term.
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It is unsustainable, and we have to find a different way.
I'm gonna talk about this in the next segment. But
and if not for tariffs, what's the other choice. Because
the choice cannot be status quo. Doing the same thing
we've always been doing, We're gonna get the same result.
It's gonna be worse. Thirty six trillion turns into fifty
trillion really fast. Tell me what the end result is.
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Tell me when it stops. Tell me how we stop it.
There are ways, but I don't nobody's come up with
any other than this. This seems to be the only
thing we've got left to try. All Right, I got
some more words to talk about, some stuff to rant about.
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Here's your host, Bow Triven.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
All right, Welcome back everybody. So, I don't know how
many of you read the Art of the Deal, but
I did. I read it back in the either the
I guess it was the nineties. I don't remember when
he wrote it, but I remember it was probably the
nineties when I read it. One of the things that
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stands out when I remember about that particular book, there
was one anecdote that Trump wrote about that had happened.
It happened to do with mar A Lago. And it
don't hold me to the numbers exactly because it's been
thirty years since I read the book, but I'm going
to give you a roundabout guestimate of how it went down.
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So mar Alago used to be owned by the Post family,
you know, Post serials and all of that. Margaret Post
apparently owned it. It had been kind of rundown, but
at the time, well, Palm Beach real estate was expensive,
but it wasn't anything remotely close to what it is now. Trump.
They apparently put mar Alago up for sale and they
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wanted fifteen million dollars for it. That's not the exact number.
I'm making this up, but I'm pretty close. They wanted
fifteen million dollars for it. Trump that I'll give you
him ten million, and they said no, and about h
I don't know. Six eight months later, a year, eight
nine months, they came back and said, okay, we'll take
ten million for it. Now, he said, now the number
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seven million. And they said, well, you'd give us ten
million before. He said, yeah, that was before you should
have taken that. Now, I'll give you seven million. They
said no, we're not going to take that. So they
came back and said, okay, like six months later, okay,
we'll take the seven million. He said no, Now they
offers three million. And that went back and forth until you.
I think the number he bought mar Logo at was
three million dollars. Don't hold me to that again, but
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it's not. It is a small, tiny, nothing, fraction of
what it's worth. Now, there are estimates that that piece
of property in Palm Beach right now would be worth
a half a billion dollars. I tell you that to
say the man is a negotiating genius. He understands the
art of negotiation. He also understands that your ability to
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walk away from something is what gives you the power,
is what gives you the negotiating strength. And if you're
not negotiating from a position of strength, you're not negotiating
very well. So since he announced the tariffs, something like
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fifty or sixty different countries. Benjamin nettan Yahoo was in
the White House last week and came up and said, Hey,
we're willing to put zero tariffs. We're going to go
zero for zero. Vietnam came in and said we'll go
zero for zero on tariffs. The European Union, who has
no right to be having putting tariffs on goods from
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America at all while we're paying for all of their
defense and keeping them solvent and have a trade deficit
with them. There should be no reason for that other
than we just get bullied around because we've had weak,
feckless presidents that didn't bother to take and put America
first because they were globalists. Why does America have to
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be first? If I'm not even worried about America, I'm
just trying to take over the entire globe. I just
think we all ought to be one big economy. Well,
that doesn't work. By the way, socialism was tried when
we first started trying to found the country. You can
go back and read the history of it, and I
can't remember the preacher's name, but there was a preacher
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that tried to get everybody to collectively farm the land.
And what they figured out was there were people who
would take advantage of that because other people would work
harder than some of the other people. And then once
they figured out why am I doing all the work
and they're not doing the work, but they get to
reap the benefits, it fell apart very quickly, like in
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a year or two. So they went back in and
divided it up the land and gave everybody their own
plot of land and said, you do your work, you
get to reap what you saw. All of a sudden,
the ones that were willing to work harder, produce more,
made more, more, got more crops. We're able to barter better.
So it's it's going to be that way. For in
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history forever. There are some people who are willing to
work harder than other people. There are some people who
are willing to do things other people aren't willing to do,
and they should be able to reap the benefits of that.
The American people have all been willing to do things
other countries aren't willing to do, and yet we've been
pushed around for fifty years. China thinks they can dominate
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us unless unless you guys weren't paying attention. If you
were paying attention, you saw that all of the commodities
in China right after Trump put the tariffs on tanked,
I mean tanked. And then China comes back and says, well,
we're going to put another thirty four percent tariffs on
you said, all right, go ahead, I'll put fifty percent
on you. Because all of those goods your factories are
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making can be made in Thailand, they can be made
in Vietnam, they can be made in other parts of
the world. They don't have to be made in China.
It's going to destroy the Chinese economy. It's going to
hurt very bad. And by the way, all you morons
out there asking why Trump didn't put any sanctions on
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Putin and making it sound like he's in bed with
Putin because we didn't put sanctions on Russia. You know
why we didn't put sanctions on Russia, because there's already
enough penalties and saying or why we didn't put tariffs
on Russia, it's because we have sanctions on Russia, wasn't
There's no reason to tariff Russia when we've got so
many sanctions on them already. We're hurting their economy to
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try to get them to the negotiating table on the war.
But I'm going to say it again. I said it before,
I'll say it again. If not tariffs, then what Let
me give you a quick understanding of what the deficits
have been like. So in twenty and seventeen Trump's first year,
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it was six hundred and sixty five billion, Then it
went to seven hundred and seventy nine billion in two
hundred twenty eighteen. Then it went to nine hundred and
eighty four billion in twenty nineteen. But then COVID hit
and the only way they made a lot of mistakes,
they did some stupid stuff. Slamming the economy into reverse
was absolutely idiotic. Should have never happened, and in hindsight,
I believe ninety percent of the people wouldn't have ever
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done it. But in twenty twenty, because of COVID, there
was a three point one three trillion dollar deficit that
was bad, okay, But under for four years or for
three years of the first three years Trump's presidency, it
ran about eight hundred billion dollars and give or take
for an average. But under Biden the same deficit spending
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was two point eight trillion, one point three seven five trillion,
one point sixty nine trillion, and one point eight trillion.
You cannot continue to spend and by the way, not
to spend waste that much money and not have some
serious issues when it comes to the economy. The only
reason we haven't had a recession is because they were
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deaf spending to the point that they had that much
money being spent by the government that we didn't actually have,
and it propped the economy up. But it's not necessary,
it's wasteful, it's hurtful, and it eventually will crash your economy.
So if not there, if not, if not for terrorists,
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then what by the way, Europe said the other day
they wanted to come to the table and they were
willing to negotiate and try to get a good deal.
And for all of you guys that are out there
worried about cars, most of our cars are made most
of the United States cars are made in Mexico, Canada
or the US. The reality is that the USMCA, the
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United States Mexico Canada Agreement that Trump renegotiated NAFTA in
his first term, and we signed the new USMCA agreement,
and he has said everything that's made under the USMCA
agreement is not being tariffed. There are no different tariffs,
and so it's not going to affect the economy nearly
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the way some of these morons that are out there.
By the way, I don't know how everybody in the
media became an international economics expert, but there are a
lot of people out there that think they know everything.
And they're the same people who, by the way, have
gotten us into thirty eight trillion dollars worth of debt.
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It is absolutely astounding to me. I think we're going
to be okay, everybody. I think that you know, GM
right after they announced it. By the way, one of
the other things that nobody's talking about in the media.
Since the announcement of the tariffs, there have been five
trillion dollars worth of commitment from other countries to bring
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manufacturing into the United States. Apple committed another five hundred
billion dollars to some new manufacturing in the United States.
There have been five trillion dollars worth of commitments. That
is how you stimulate an economy. It may take a
few years, it may take a little while. Factories don't
get built immediately, it takes a little bit of time.
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But when they've committed to spending that kind of money
in the United States, it's a long term commitment that
will generate jobs for generations if we continue to do
the right thing. So before I go, I wanted to
say one more thing about this winning streak we're on.
I think Iran has figured out that demand does not
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mess around, because we have been talked about the fact
that we were having to launch strikes on the Hoofies
in the Red Sea because they were bombing all of
our ships right and the European ships, and they were
stopping trade and that's just not acceptable. So Iran doing
what Iran always does, those impostures and if they do
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that they will be met with forest they have never
seen before. They forget we're the largest military in the world.
They forget we have lots of bombs. We have lots
of stuff, and we can continue to make more and
it ain't going to bother us. And so apparently Trump
has launched a massive bombing attack on the Hoothies and
Iran said, okay, uncle, get all of the Iranian troops
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out of there. We don't want any of our guys killed.
But here's what We've moved in assets to that region
since the since Trump took office, and he's sending a
message to Iran. So we've moved the USS Harry S.
Truman Carrier Strike Group, the US Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group,
several A ten warthogs, and three hundred airmen, F thirty
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five bomber Squadron, six B two stealth bombers, C seventeen
cargo jets, refueling tankers, missile defense systems, and two Patriot
missile defense batteries. That's what's in the region right now.
So I think they know he is not fooling around,
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and they don't want to do the FAFO part of it,
because the FO part of that is going to get
going to get ugly for him. One last thing before
I go. I don't know how many of you guys
ever listen to Neil Young, But as in the words
of Leonard Skinnard, a Southern man don't need him around anyhow.
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Neil Young has now come out and concluded that Trump
is the worst president ever. And he came out the
other day and he said he invoked the Pledge of
Allegiance and said, and I'm quoting him here, one country
indivisible with liberty and freedom for all. So anybody that
doesn't know that that's with liberty and justice for all
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doesn't deserve to trash the president of the United States.
You can't even say the Pledge of Allegiance, right, Try
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Here's your host, bow Triven.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
All right, good morning everybody, Thanks for tuning in on
this beautiful time of the year here in Middle Tennessee.
Before before I get started, I want to remind everybody
that the annual Chevrolet Buick GMC of Murphysboro Easter Egg
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the day before Easter, at the Blackman High School ball field.
And this year we've got I think it's I think
we added it up the other day and we're giving
away seventy five hundred dollars in cash to the kids
in different increments based on if they find the right eggs.
But we've got a lot of eggs, thirty thousand eggs.
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But when it starts, it gets started, and it ends
fairly quickly because last year I think we had a
thousand kids or something, so it doesn't take long for
them to scoop up the eggs. With that said, I
hope everybody enjoys it and coming out, and hopefully it's
going to be a nice day. So before I get started,
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I was reading something the other day. I don't know
how many of you know, but Bill Maher, the HBO host,
was apparently invited to the White House by Kid Rock.
Kid Rock was talking to Bill Maher and said, I'm
going to get you a dinner at the White House.
And Bill Maher has he's been one of the biggest
critics of Trump, and but he I at least respect him.
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He's got different points of view. We don't agree on
everything when it comes to politics, obviously, but I respect
the fact that he seems to at least have a
take that can be made some common sense of right.
I don't necessarily agree with it, but I understand it
a little bit. So he's one of the few that's
not absolutely nuts and I respect him for that. But anyways,
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he decides to he to his credit, he accepted the
dinner invitation to go see Trump and have dinner with him,
and apparently he put out snippets of it. He hasn't
done it on his show yet. I don't think. I
don't watch his show, but I did hear some snippets.
So one of the things that I thought was the
funniest that I heard was apparently he walked in for
this dinner and had a list of all of the
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insults Trump had said about him over the years, had
it typed out his whole list. So he hands it
to Trump says what do you think about that? Trump
pretayed over and grabbed it, autographed it and said, yep,
I did that, and handed it back to him. And
I thought, you know, that's nothing wrong with that. You
you own up to it. But I thought it was
funny that he just autocraft and handed it back. But
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the other story that he told was he said that
back in the first Trump administration, there was one of
the al Kaeda operatives that was a moolah that was
one of the heads of al Kaeda, and Trump apparently
they got a picture of his house and h somebody
took a picture of his house, and Trump autographed the
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back of the picture of this al Kaeda at Leeds
house and sent it to him, and uh, he told
Bill Maher said, yeah, he asked why did he send
me a picture of my house? So well, you're gonna
have to figure that out. I uh, we all know
why he's sending the picture of the house. He saying, Hey,
look I know where you live. And just so you
think you can get away from us, you can't. We
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know everything about you. I thought it was uh. I
thought it was funny because it showed a lot of
showed a couple of things, one strength, but also a
sense of humor, and right now, I think people on
the left could use a sense of humor. We have
had that. I read an article the other day there
was a survey done that is disturbing, probably as disturbing
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as any survey I've seen, and there have been a lot.
Fifty five percent of the people who identify as leftists,
people who identify not necessarily as the Democratic Party, but
who identify as leftists, fifty five percent said that it
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was okay to assassinate Trump if it was going to
be for the better good. Forty nine percent said it
was okay to assassinate Elon Musk. There have been well,
let's go back and look at it. Luigi Manjoni, right,
who thinks it's okay to murder an executive of an
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insurance company for whatever reason. You can't justify murder, You
cannot justify assassination. You can't. The fact that this violence
and the violence tendencies are coming out of one side
of this is scary to me because it's becoming more
and more mainstream. They're embedding it into their thought processes,
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and it's going to get dangerous. And for no reason.
I have a lot of disagreements with a lot of
people that when it comes to politics, when it comes
to a lot of different things, how to raise my children,
But not one time have I ever thought it would
be okay to have somebody murdered. And that's what assassination is.
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It's political murder. And I don't understand how you can
get to that point in your brain where and not
just a few people fifty five percent, more than half
think it's okay in some instances for assassination of a
human being, who forget the fact that he's the president
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and you disagree with some of his policies. I'll get
to that in just a second, but he's still a
human being that has sons and daughters and aunts, and
uncles and fathers and mothers and wives and children, and
how I don't understand it. I don't understand this violent
tendency that's coming out of all of these protests, where
it's okay to burn things to the ground, it's okay
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to loot, it's okay to steal from people. It's that
mentality is being driven into people who aren't mentally well
and are going to cause some serious damage. And it's
going to be the fault of the rhetoric of the
politicians who have for years spewed that he's literally Hitler
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and he it's a dilemma, right. It's that old adage
of if you had a chance to Hitler when he
was a baby, would you do it? Right? It's that
philosophical question, And the answered I give is no, I wouldn't.
It's a baby. I don't know that he's going to
turn out like that. But the reality is we have
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got to dial it down because people are going to
get hurt, and the people that are going to get
hurt are not the people who are are the ones
saying it's okay to hurt people. They're not the ones
that are going to survive. If there's if it becomes
if it comes to that, it's just it's sick. It's
wrong on every level, and we got to dial it
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back quickly. It doesn't make any sense to me, but hey,
I'm just one guy that doesn't just doesn't believe in that.
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Speaker 3 (08:38):
All right, welcome back. Everybody appreciate you tuning in. So
I was talking to my wife the other day and
we were just talking about manners, and it dawned on me.
It didn't dawn on me. I've known it for a
long time, but I started rethinking it that so much
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of our society has gotten away from just being kind
and having manners, you know, the ability to say thank you, please,
hold the door for ladies as they walk through, hold
the door for guys when they walk through. It doesn't
matter lady or not. It's still rude to grab the
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door and walk right in front of somebody. It is common.
Decency and kindness have gone out the window. And I
don't know if it's because of social media. I don't
know if it's because of parents. I don't know what
it is, but I know that it's absolutely destroying our society.
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The willingness to say yes sir, no ma'am, please, thank you,
just do things that are generally respectful and polite. To
this day, I still will say yes sir and no
sir to people much younger than me that are my customers.
And it's because I've been taught over the years that
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it's just polite to be that way if I don't
know your name. But also, whatever happened to children referring
to their elders. You know, I have lots of employees.
I'm sixty years old now, I've had lots of employees
over the years, and even my current partner, who was
my employer for years, before he allowed me the privilege
of becoming a partner with him. I still to this
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day call him mister Taylor, and still to this day
say yes, sir and no, sir, and all of those
things to him in every conversation I have with him,
because it's respectful and I'm showing that sign of respect
that he did that for me. And I have lots
of employees that work for me that are nineteen twenty
twenty five years old that don't know me. You know,
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they work for me, but I don't really know all
of them on a personal basis. It's not like I
have some relationship with them and I'll walk through and
I'll say, hey, bo, what's up? And it just dawns on. Men,
it's not calling me by my name. That doesn't bother me.
I don't think I'm better than anybody else. I just
wonder what happened to that common decency and respect of
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respecting your elders, respecting authority, respecting people in society so
that we can all get along. And we have gotten
away from that in a big way. And I think
it is by design. I think you know, if you
listen to if you read any of the studies about
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TikTok TikTok, especially because TikTok has algorithms that are completely
different in the United States versus the algorithms in China.
In China, TikTok feeds to its Chinese citizens or children
videos and tiktoks about education and sciences and math and
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all kinds of things in society that are completely different
than what we get, completely different from some of the
deranged tiktoks. I saw TikTok the other day. I was
watching that. I showed him my wife and it was
this lady who her job is being a TikTok influencer,
and she spent five or six minutes on this TikTok
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and she's probably got she got quite a few followers.
She spent five or six minutes on this TikTok talking
about how her husband didn't do enough that on paper,
he was a perfect husband. He was kind, he was sweet,
he was loving, he was a great father, he was there,
he was present, all of that. But her biggest peeve
was that he didn't unload the dishwasher in the morning,
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and because he was late for work and it made
her late for work. But her job is being a
TikTok influencer. She can start at anytime she wants, there's
no specific time she's got to start. He had a
job he had to get up to, and she complained
about the fact that he had to ask her what
he had to cook for dinner that night. Her he
had to ask her what needed to be packed in
the kids for them to go to lunch that day
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while he was taking them to school. And I thought,
how privileged of a society do we have to live
in for somebody to spend five minutes trashing their husband
in public to a million people for simply not unloading
the dishwasher or not or asking her what to cook
for dinner that night. And it is that type of rhetoric.
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And this lady went as far as saying that she
had thought about getting divorced over it. And it dawned
on me that it's part of that respect thing. It's
part of all we have gotten so far out of
what drove this country to being great, which is a
belief in a higher power, a belief in a higher being,
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a belief that if we all work together we can
accomplish absolutely unfathomable things. And we have done that consistently,
no matter what all these protests are about, and by
the way, I want to talk about that in just
a second. No matter what all these protests are about,
ultimately every one of those protesters knows their life is
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better because they live in the United States of America.
They know that because they are here. All of the things,
the phones that they're carrying in their hands, the pavement
that they're walking on so it's not dirt roads anymore,
the buildings that they live in, the air conditioning that
they go back to, all of those things are because
of capitalism and the United States of America and the
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greatness of the American people. And they can continue to
trash fifty percent of the country, but it's the fifty
percent of the country that's providing most of the stuff
that they use to make their lives better every single day.
It is absolutely amazing. But these protests, I want to
talk about them for a second because they're sickening to me.
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It's also kind of enlightening. It's funny when you watch
people get out in the streets and start asking people
what they're actually protesting. It's almost astounding how many of
them have no clue what they're actually protesting. Donald Trump's
a fascist. Well, what makes him a fascist? Well, cause
you know, he just wants to do whatever he wants
to do. Dude, No, that's not what makes him a fascist.
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He's not a fascist. He is trying. A fascist does
not try to limit the size of government. A fascist
tries to expand the size of government and make it
more onerous for the people. He is doing everything he
can to cut regulations to unleash these tariffs. I'll talk
about them in the next segment. But these tariffs were
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designed to bring jobs back to the United States, to
help the American workers and all of the American middle
class that was so great for so many years after
the Industrial Revolution, the American middle class ruled the world.
But now it's been decimated by one world politicians that
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all want to have some global society and all want
to retain the power in that global society. We have
to we have to get away. I don't know how
we're going to do it, though, I really don't, but
we have to get away from being unkind to each other.
And I think it. I've said it on the show
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many times. The forty five stated goals of communism and
I think that it is while while the forty five
stated goals of Communism started out as a Soviet Union
Russian designed plan, after the decimation of the Soviet Union
and going back to just Russia and Russia's economy is
not very big now, Russia doesn't have the power that
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it had as the Soviet Union, that plan got transferred
to China, and China has the technological wherewithal and all
of the other things that they need, and the willingness
to play the long game. And China basically took over
for what Russia or the Soviet Union was doing in
the seventies and eighties, sixties, seventies and eighties, and they're
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doing it by destroying our children and planting thought processes
through digital media and social media, planting thought processes that
destroy the minds of our young people. And they know
that if they can get a hold of three or
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four generations of children and continue to indoctrinate those children
into those thought processes, that at some point that will
be the way it is. Unfortunately, what they don't have
a read on is the rest of the country, the
rest of that fifty percent of the country that says nope,
we're not going along with that. Nope, we're not buying
into that. Nope, we're not believing that that will stand
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up and fight for the greatness of the United States
of America. I don't care. I want everybody out there
that's protesting the United States of America to tell me
how the world would be better without the US. Tell
me how would the world be better without the United
States of America. We'd all still be living in the
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dark ages if it hadn't been for the United States
of America and the Industrial Revolution and all of the
inventions that came out of that, and all of the
technology and all of the innovation that comes out of
the United States because of capitalism. Where would the world
be today? I assure you, you don't want to live
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in it. If you if you saw it, it's not
a good world without the United States of America. These
people got to they got to get a clue. It's
getting old. I'm getting tired of constantly having to listen
to the rhetoric and the stupidity that's coming out of
some of these people's mouths that have no clue what
they're talking about. All right, that wraps up the second segment.
(18:57):
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I got some have to talk about when it comes
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Speaker 2 (19:40):
Here's your host, bow Driven.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
All right, welcome back everybody. So before I get started
talking about my opinion on the tariffs and what's going
on with all of that, I wanted to bring up
one more thing when it came to the protest over
the last week week and weekend. Aside from the fact
that they're committing violence and burning teslas and destroying things
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that for people who are probably on their side of
the aisle that are driving teslas, that makes no sense
to me. But hey, you be an idiot if you've
got to be an idiot. But I also wanted to
point out that when the media attempts to try to
make it sound how great and how big all of
these protests were. So they said that like six hundred
(20:28):
thousand people signed up for the protests and they but
then I saw some media group that used the figure
that were are five million people around the United States protesting? Yeah,
they're the same people who voted back in November and lost.
Now they're just continuing on with their goofiness. There's a
(20:52):
lot of words I could use, but I'm not allowed
to because it's the FCC says I can't say those
kind of words on the radio. But the goofiness, it's
just odd to me. So let's talk about these tariffs
because I know it is creating a lot of craziness
and a lot of stupidity when it comes to the
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stock market. First of all, let me explain to everything
to somebody, the stock market will be just fine. Right
after the tariffs were announced, people got stupid and started
doing really stupid things and selling all of their stocks.
But the reality is they shouldn't have done that. There
was no reason to sell them in by the way
it started coming back. The stock market is going to
bounce around. You're going to talk about how Trump is
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destroying the economy wide. What did he destroyed the stock market?
The stock markets had ten percent corrections every year for
the last I don't know, fifteen years or something. They've
had twenty and thirty percent corrections before tariffs were put
on there. So the only let me back up a second,
(21:56):
talk is cheap. And what everybody every America president prior
to Donald Trump, except for Reagan, did was talk. They
just talked, but they were all in with all the
globalists anyways. Obama was certainly a globalist. He was all in.
He did a tour, an apology tour, walk going around
from country to country when he first became president, telling
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everybody how sorry he was for the United States of America.
Don't apologize for us. You're apologizing to countries we give
money to. You're apologizing to countries we support. You're apologizing
to European countries. Why why are they allowed to lecture
us while we sit there and pay for all of
their defense. If it wasn't for the United States of America,
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Putin would roll right in through Europe and create a
different Soviet Union again, and there'd be nothing they could
do to stop him. They do not have the defenses
to be able to stop him. You know why they
didn't say anything when that Signal Chat scandal came out
and Jade Vance was trashing Europe and saying, I'm tired
of taking care of them and i loathe the fact
(23:02):
that we have to take care of their lazy butts,
and Pete Heegsas said, yeah, me too. You know why
you didn't hear anything in the media from anybody in
European countries howling about that because they knew it was true.
It's really hard to say, well, we oh, okay, you're right,
never mind, we can't take care of ourselves. We don't
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have the money you are spending. Seventy percent of the
money on NATO comes from the United States of America,
while we sit over here and give money away and
have these socialist countries where we're everybody gets everything for free,
but defense. Defense is at the expense of the American taxpayer.
They're the ones that are gonna have to pay for
our defense so we can continue to do the things
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we do, even though we're gonna buy our oil from
Putin and we're not gonna buy it from the United States,
and we're gonna buy all of this other stuff. It
makes no sense. You guys sit over there and lecture
us while Obama goes around and says we're sorry, all
while we're the one's taking care of everything. We're the
ones that are sart at thirty six or thirty eight
trillion now in debt because of that, and so talk
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is cheap. We were on a trajectory that was unsustainable.
It is impossible to continue to run to trillion dollars
a year deficits and stay solvent. You cannot do it there.
It comes a point in time when you can't borrow
any more money than what We had no choice but
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to create doze and try to find a different way
to fix this problem. And by the way, I want
to remind everybody you can find this video online very easily.
In twenty eleven, President Obama at the time put out
a video talking about wanting to reduce government waste and
how it needed to be done and that we knew
there was this much waste in the government. You know
(24:53):
why he didn't do it, and I don't think it
was nefarious. Here's my theory on why he didn't do it,
Because they got into the computer systems and went, oh crap,
it's not possible to do this. None of the computers
talk to each other. None of the systems from Social
Security talked to the VA or talk to Medicare, and
(25:14):
none of the systems talk to each other. We have
no way of understanding how deep all of this rot is.
And AI didn't exist at the time. We didn't have
the technological capabilities. I've talked about this on the show before,
and it was a by design that the government continued
(25:35):
to have systems that didn't talk to each other. Because
if you don't have systems that can talk to each
other and you don't have a proper way of accounting
for everything, you can hide lots and lots and lots
of stuff. And so the grift or graft, I've heard
it both ways. I'm not sure which one it is,
but I think it's grifting. But the grift could continue
(25:56):
on and on and on because you just simply couldn't
find the problems. It took twenty twenty five. It took
fourteen years later for the technological capabilities, and some people
who are really smart when it comes to computers, that
were willing to get in there and dig in to
find all of these things that were hidden. When you
have trillions of dollars that are going out the door
(26:18):
with no markers on them to tell where it went,
that's a problem. But it was a problem that was
by design to continue to allow the people who were
stealing and wasting the money to continue to do that.
So I don't think I think Obama had great intentions.
I think you just it wasn't possible at the time
to solve the problem. It is now, and now they're
(26:42):
trying to solve the problem because if you run two
trillion dollar deficits and you do that long enough, you'll
be broke. It's just that simple. So and by the way,
I also want to point out that it was bound
for the stock market to have an issue. It would
bound for the Wall Street to have an issue. And
I said this in a different show. When you take
(27:04):
two trillion dollars worth of government spending off the table
and you start spending what you have not deficit spending,
you're bound to find some pain in there. Those companies,
whether it was I don't know the defense companies, all
of the ones that are part of the defense budget
that got cut or part of the education budget. That
(27:25):
money went somewhere, it paid for something, It created jobs,
it created other things. Speaking of jobs, the jobs report,
the first job's report for Trump, came out last week
and the media blew it over. They just or blew
over it. They just didn't even think about it, didn't
talk about it. But you know what it showed that
(27:47):
employment was up. I think it was two hundred and
sixty eight thousand, and it beat the estimates by like
fifty or sixty thousand. But what was more important than
that was there was a decrease in government jobs, which
meant it was private sector jobs that were growing the economy.
Government jobs do not grow the economy. Government jobs are
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a drain on the economy. They're just they're not producing anything.
They're simply taking more of the tax dollars. And so
when we have a jobs report that reports that we
have growth in all of the private sectors and less growth,
no growth, actually declining numbers in the government numbers, it
means we're on the right track. It means we're doing
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something that's necessary to put the economy back on the track.
For health. Why do all of these other countries that
don't they get access to the greatest economic machine that's
ever been created, and that is the American consumer. Our
(28:51):
market dominates the world's economy dominates it. And why do
they all get access to our economy, which, by the way,
was created simply because of capitalism. One hundred percent of
our economy was created because of capitalism, nothing else. So
why do they get access to the greatest economy on
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earth at very low tariff rates? But our products and
all of our stuff that we're trying to manufacture get
tariffed to the end in their countries. Why is that fair?
And all Trump said was they've been doing it for
fifty years. You can see there is a difference. Drive
through I don't know, I've drive to chat through Chattanooga
(29:35):
once or twice a month, and there are these big,
huge buildings that you know, used to be factories that
used to that are just sitting there, empty windows, destroyed
that they were I don't know, seventy five eighty one
hundred thousand foot factories that are shuttered and have been
shuttered for twenty thirty forty years. They're all over the
United States, They're all over the Midwest, They're everywhere because
(29:57):
those manufacturing jobs that created wealth and created retirements and
all of the created families. They got absolutely decimated because
all of the stuff went overseas, because we got hooked
on cheap goods. And all Trump is saying is we
can't keep doing that. It does not work long term.
(30:21):
It is unsustainable, and we have to find a different way.
I'm gonna talk about this in the next segment. But
and if not for tariffs, what's the other choice. Because
the choice cannot be status quo. Doing the same thing
we've always been doing, We're gonna get the same result.
It's gonna be worse. Thirty six trillion turns into fifty
trillion really fast. Tell me what the end result is.
(30:43):
Tell me when it stops. Tell me how we stop it.
There are ways, but I don't nobody's come up with
any other than this. This seems to be the only
thing we've got left to try. All Right, I got
some more words to talk about, some stuff to rant about.
After the break, Come on back after the break. This
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Speaker 2 (31:42):
Here's your host, Bow Triven.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
All right, Welcome back everybody. So, I don't know how
many of you read the Art of the Deal, but
I did. I read it back in the either the
I guess it was the nineties. I don't remember when
he wrote it, but I remember it was probably the
nineties when I read it. One of the things that
(32:10):
stands out when I remember about that particular book, there
was one anecdote that Trump wrote about that had happened.
It happened to do with mar A Lago. And it
don't hold me to the numbers exactly because it's been
thirty years since I read the book, but I'm going
to give you a roundabout guestimate of how it went down.
(32:31):
So mar Alago used to be owned by the Post family,
you know, Post serials and all of that. Margaret Post
apparently owned it. It had been kind of rundown, but
at the time, well, Palm Beach real estate was expensive,
but it wasn't anything remotely close to what it is now. Trump.
They apparently put mar Alago up for sale and they
(32:52):
wanted fifteen million dollars for it. That's not the exact number.
I'm making this up, but I'm pretty close. They wanted
fifteen million dollars for it. Trump that I'll give you
him ten million, and they said no, and about h
I don't know. Six eight months later, a year, eight
nine months, they came back and said, okay, we'll take
ten million for it. Now, he said, now the number
(33:13):
seven million. And they said, well, you'd give us ten
million before. He said, yeah, that was before you should
have taken that. Now, I'll give you seven million. They
said no, we're not going to take that. So they
came back and said, okay, like six months later, okay,
we'll take the seven million. He said no, Now they
offers three million. And that went back and forth until you.
I think the number he bought mar Logo at was
three million dollars. Don't hold me to that again, but
(33:36):
it's not. It is a small, tiny, nothing, fraction of
what it's worth. Now, there are estimates that that piece
of property in Palm Beach right now would be worth
a half a billion dollars. I tell you that to
say the man is a negotiating genius. He understands the
art of negotiation. He also understands that your ability to
(33:59):
walk away from something is what gives you the power,
is what gives you the negotiating strength. And if you're
not negotiating from a position of strength, you're not negotiating
very well. So since he announced the tariffs, something like
(34:19):
fifty or sixty different countries. Benjamin nettan Yahoo was in
the White House last week and came up and said, Hey,
we're willing to put zero tariffs. We're going to go
zero for zero. Vietnam came in and said we'll go
zero for zero on tariffs. The European Union, who has
no right to be having putting tariffs on goods from
(34:42):
America at all while we're paying for all of their
defense and keeping them solvent and have a trade deficit
with them. There should be no reason for that other
than we just get bullied around because we've had weak,
feckless presidents that didn't bother to take and put America
first because they were globalists. Why does America have to
(35:03):
be first? If I'm not even worried about America, I'm
just trying to take over the entire globe. I just
think we all ought to be one big economy. Well,
that doesn't work. By the way, socialism was tried when
we first started trying to found the country. You can
go back and read the history of it, and I
can't remember the preacher's name, but there was a preacher
(35:23):
that tried to get everybody to collectively farm the land.
And what they figured out was there were people who
would take advantage of that because other people would work
harder than some of the other people. And then once
they figured out why am I doing all the work
and they're not doing the work, but they get to
reap the benefits, it fell apart very quickly, like in
(35:46):
a year or two. So they went back in and
divided it up the land and gave everybody their own
plot of land and said, you do your work, you
get to reap what you saw. All of a sudden,
the ones that were willing to work harder, produce more,
made more, more, got more crops. We're able to barter better.
So it's it's going to be that way. For in
(36:06):
history forever. There are some people who are willing to
work harder than other people. There are some people who
are willing to do things other people aren't willing to do,
and they should be able to reap the benefits of that.
The American people have all been willing to do things
other countries aren't willing to do, and yet we've been
pushed around for fifty years. China thinks they can dominate
(36:30):
us unless unless you guys weren't paying attention. If you
were paying attention, you saw that all of the commodities
in China right after Trump put the tariffs on tanked,
I mean tanked. And then China comes back and says, well,
we're going to put another thirty four percent tariffs on
you said, all right, go ahead, I'll put fifty percent
on you. Because all of those goods your factories are
(36:50):
making can be made in Thailand, they can be made
in Vietnam, they can be made in other parts of
the world. They don't have to be made in China.
It's going to destroy the Chinese economy. It's going to
hurt very bad. And by the way, all you morons
out there asking why Trump didn't put any sanctions on
(37:12):
Putin and making it sound like he's in bed with
Putin because we didn't put sanctions on Russia. You know
why we didn't put sanctions on Russia, because there's already
enough penalties and saying or why we didn't put tariffs
on Russia, it's because we have sanctions on Russia, wasn't
There's no reason to tariff Russia when we've got so
many sanctions on them already. We're hurting their economy to
(37:34):
try to get them to the negotiating table on the war.
But I'm going to say it again. I said it before,
I'll say it again. If not tariffs, then what Let
me give you a quick understanding of what the deficits
have been like. So in twenty and seventeen Trump's first year,
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it was six hundred and sixty five billion, Then it
went to seven hundred and seventy nine billion in two
hundred twenty eighteen. Then it went to nine hundred and
eighty four billion in twenty nineteen. But then COVID hit
and the only way they made a lot of mistakes,
they did some stupid stuff. Slamming the economy into reverse
was absolutely idiotic. Should have never happened, and in hindsight,
I believe ninety percent of the people wouldn't have ever
(38:21):
done it. But in twenty twenty, because of COVID, there
was a three point one three trillion dollar deficit that
was bad, okay, But under for four years or for
three years of the first three years Trump's presidency, it
ran about eight hundred billion dollars and give or take
for an average. But under Biden the same deficit spending
(38:47):
was two point eight trillion, one point three seven five trillion,
one point sixty nine trillion, and one point eight trillion.
You cannot continue to spend and by the way, not
to spend waste that much money and not have some
serious issues when it comes to the economy. The only
reason we haven't had a recession is because they were
(39:08):
deaf spending to the point that they had that much
money being spent by the government that we didn't actually have,
and it propped the economy up. But it's not necessary,
it's wasteful, it's hurtful, and it eventually will crash your economy.
So if not there, if not, if not for terrorists,
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then what by the way, Europe said the other day
they wanted to come to the table and they were
willing to negotiate and try to get a good deal.
And for all of you guys that are out there
worried about cars, most of our cars are made most
of the United States cars are made in Mexico, Canada
or the US. The reality is that the USMCA, the
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United States Mexico Canada Agreement that Trump renegotiated NAFTA in
his first term, and we signed the new USMCA agreement,
and he has said everything that's made under the USMCA
agreement is not being tariffed. There are no different tariffs,
and so it's not going to affect the economy nearly
(40:12):
the way some of these morons that are out there.
By the way, I don't know how everybody in the
media became an international economics expert, but there are a
lot of people out there that think they know everything.
And they're the same people who, by the way, have
gotten us into thirty eight trillion dollars worth of debt.
(40:33):
It is absolutely astounding to me. I think we're going
to be okay, everybody. I think that you know, GM
right after they announced it. By the way, one of
the other things that nobody's talking about in the media.
Since the announcement of the tariffs, there have been five
trillion dollars worth of commitment from other countries to bring
(40:53):
manufacturing into the United States. Apple committed another five hundred
billion dollars to some new manufacturing in the United States.
There have been five trillion dollars worth of commitments. That
is how you stimulate an economy. It may take a
few years, it may take a little while. Factories don't
get built immediately, it takes a little bit of time.
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But when they've committed to spending that kind of money
in the United States, it's a long term commitment that
will generate jobs for generations if we continue to do
the right thing. So before I go, I wanted to
say one more thing about this winning streak we're on.
I think Iran has figured out that demand does not
(41:37):
mess around, because we have been talked about the fact
that we were having to launch strikes on the Hoofies
in the Red Sea because they were bombing all of
our ships right and the European ships, and they were
stopping trade and that's just not acceptable. So Iran doing
what Iran always does, those impostures and if they do
(41:58):
that they will be met with forest they have never
seen before. They forget we're the largest military in the world.
They forget we have lots of bombs. We have lots
of stuff, and we can continue to make more and
it ain't going to bother us. And so apparently Trump
has launched a massive bombing attack on the Hoothies and
Iran said, okay, uncle, get all of the Iranian troops
(42:20):
out of there. We don't want any of our guys killed.
But here's what We've moved in assets to that region
since the since Trump took office, and he's sending a
message to Iran. So we've moved the USS Harry S.
Truman Carrier Strike Group, the US Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group,
several A ten warthogs, and three hundred airmen, F thirty
(42:43):
five bomber Squadron, six B two stealth bombers, C seventeen
cargo jets, refueling tankers, missile defense systems, and two Patriot
missile defense batteries. That's what's in the region right now.
So I think they know he is not fooling around,
(43:04):
and they don't want to do the FAFO part of it,
because the FO part of that is going to get
going to get ugly for him. One last thing before
I go. I don't know how many of you guys
ever listen to Neil Young, But as in the words
of Leonard Skinnard, a Southern man don't need him around anyhow.
(43:28):
Neil Young has now come out and concluded that Trump
is the worst president ever. And he came out the
other day and he said he invoked the Pledge of
Allegiance and said, and I'm quoting him here, one country
indivisible with liberty and freedom for all. So anybody that
doesn't know that that's with liberty and justice for all
(43:51):
doesn't deserve to trash the president of the United States.
You can't even say the Pledge of Allegiance, right, Try
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